He grabbed a bottle of Jack Daniels and disappeared into his room. We had to help pull his leg off of the spike. It went right through his foot out the top of his shoe. A guy named Josh who was a crew member jumped down from the rafters and landed on a two-by-four that had a spike coming out of the top of it. Q: The film is really gory, but how gory was the filming? Were there any real injuries during filming?Ī: Oh yeah. I got back to the cabin and Sam was not dead. I’m like, “OK, he just killed Sam and I’m next.”Ī: He was just a hunter who was out there. Q: Any scary real life experiences come from that?Ī: One morning, the time Sam had to sleep there overnight, I’m coming down first thing in the morning with two bags of groceries and supplies and stuff and I see a guy walking away from the cabin with a ZZ Top beard, the biggest shotgun I’ve ever seen in my life and shotgun shells on two straps across his chest. It was freezing it was cold you had nothing so it was a very lonely existence. So the person who got the short end of the stick guarded the cabin at night. The rest of us were crammed into a five bedroom house about a mile away. One crew member had to volunteer, sort of rock, paper, scissors style, to do security and sleep overnight at the cabin.
Q: Some of the crew had to live in the actual cabin during the filming, how bad was it staying in that old cabin?Ī: Well, it wasn’t quite that bad. We shot four times longer than the average movie and as a result your visual style is much more unique. A lot of horror movies are done in like three weeks, and this was low budget, but we shot in Tennessee for 12 weeks. When you watch the movie it has a different look than your average horror movie. We spent days where we got only one shot that day because it was a very complicated shot.
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